HELICHRYSUM (Straw-Flower) 
Prettj' everlasting flowers in beautiful colors and many soft and artistic shades. Splendid for winter boiumets. 
To preserve them, cut the flowers before they are fully expanded, and hang in a dry place. Make the first sowing 
in a hotbed in March and a second in the seed-bed outdoors in May. 
Double Fireball. Deep crimson. Double Rose Queen. Old rose. 
Double Silver Bali. Silvery white. Double Salmon Queen. Salmon-pink. 
Double Golden Ball. Golden yellow. Double Violet Queen. Violet; very attractive. 
Each of the above varieties, pkt. 15 cts. Collection, 1 pkt. each of the above 6 varieties, 75 cts. 
Double IVIixed. All colors. Pkt. 10 cts., 34oz. 50 cts., oz. .$1.50. 
Mallow Marvel 
HIBISCUS (Mallow Marvels) 
New large-flowering hybrids. Although they are perennials 
they flower the first year from seed. The blooms are wonderfully 
large, 6 to 7 inches across, and the whole plant is extremely showy. 
Pkt. 15 cts., }ioz. 50 cts. 
HOLLYHOCKS (Annual Everblooming) 
A new strain which flowers the first year from seed. In every 
way the same as the hardy varieties with the additional advantage 
of a longer blooming period. The plants branch freely and con- 
tinue to flower throughout the summer. Pkt. 20 cts., ^^oz. $1. 
HONESTY (Lunaria biennis) 
Really a biennial, but best treated as an annual. Chiefly grown 
for its shiny, silvery seed-pods, which make a useful winter dec- 
oration, arranged with floAvers in baskets and bouquets. When the seed-pods are per- 
fected, cut the stalks bearing them, and store away in dry places for future use. 2 ft. 
Crimson. Pkt. 10 cts., Moz. 30 cts. White. Pkt. 10 cts., J^oz. 30 cts. 
Purple. Pkt. 10 cts., ^oz. 30 cts. 
HUMULUS 
Lupulus. The Hop of commerce. Principally cultivated for its flower-heads, which are 
used in brewing, but also a very ornamental plant for covering trellises, verandas, etc. 
It grows taller and stronger than the Japanese variety and the leaves are coarser, but it is 
a plant that will succeed in any situation ; neither heat, drought, nor insects seem to trouble 
it. Pkt. 25 cts. 
Japonicus (Japanese Hop). Splendid annual climber of quick growth, and very orna- 
mental. Not attacked by insects, and valuable for covering verandas, fences, or arbors. 
12 ft. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 90 cts. 
HUNNEMANNIA (Giant Yellow Tulip Poppy) 
A glor ious sun-kissed golden yellow Poppy on a strong stem with fine feathery esch- 
scholtzia-like foliage; excellent for cutting. Sow outdoors in May where they are to grow, in 
rich soil and keep bed clear of weeds. A splendid plant for massing in beds or planting 
m clumps m the border. They reach a height of 2 feet and are covered with lovely large 
yellow flowers from July to frost. Pkt. 15 cts., oz. 75 cts. 
ICE PLANT (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum) 
A curious and very ornamental little plant called Ice Plant in consequence of every 
part of the leaf and stalk being covered with small watery pistules, which glisten in the 
sun like fragments of ice. This plant is especially attractive in rockeries, and succeeds 
well even in dry places. On account of their attractiveness, the leaves are splendid for 
garnishing, and are delicious when eaten as a salad. Pkt. 10 cts., 34oz. 50 cts. 
IIViPATIENS (East African Bal sam) 
Veiy effective for bedding; succeeds particularly well in half-shady places, and blooms 
continuously throughout the summer; also splendid pot-plants, producing their blooms in 
profusion all winter long. 
Holstii. Orange-scarlet. 18 in. Pkt. 25 cts. 
Holstii Hybrids. Colors varying from lilac to ruby and from pink to ver- 
milion-scarlet. Pkt. 25 cts. 
Sultani. Rosy carmine. Pkt. 25 cts. 
KOCHIA 
Trichophylla (Summer Cypress). A very ornamental plant of graceful 
habit, with finely cut green foliage which changes to a rich russet-crimson in 
the autumn. It forms a neat little bush somewhat resembling a small Cy- 
press tree, and is especially valuable where it is desired to produce formal 
regular effects, as it retains its shape when most other garden vegetation 
is destroyed by frost. It is practically a new plant and of the easiest cul- 
tivation. 3 ft. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 50 cts. 
Helichrysum 
Hunnemannia 
"THE HAWES," a Watering-Pot, with two 
copper-faced brass roses. Specially made for watering 
seed-beds. Price, $5. 
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